HISTORY 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Socialist Labor Party Of America, 1929 Palestine Riots, Mizrahi Jews
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Therefore, it began to downscale support for zionism and switch from pro- Peel commission of 1937: called for the creation of a small, independent jewish state (~18% of modern day israel) and 75% would go to palestinian arabs. Jews upset with small piece of land offered, but warmly welcomed the idea of an independent state. Leaders of the arab revolt reject the idea of partition: b(cid:396)itai(cid:374)(cid:859)s oil field i(cid:374) i(cid:396)a(cid:395) (cid:449)as at (cid:396)isk; b(cid:396)itai(cid:374) (cid:272)ould(cid:374)(cid:859)t spa(cid:396)e t(cid:396)oops i(cid:374) palesti(cid:374)e as wwii approached (needed to cut the zionist connection to save themselves) Soviet union: wwii soviets become more sympathetic for the jews. Zionists and soviets were united in the fact that their chief enemy was germany. Stalin hoped that a jewish state would align itself with the west: agreed with the us on the importance of zionism, cold war soviets want to align themselves with the palestinians because america was allied with israel.
